If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. Auteur: David Mitchell Copy Quote More from David Mitchell “I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partitio…” “Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really kn…” “Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my …” “The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he want…”